Not saying I condone it, but seeing how lifeless and sterile (no pun intended...!) most software has become, and how quick people have gotten to take offense at everything, I almost wish "spicy" stuff like this would show up more often.
Why? Software can be fun without being... this. Easter eggs and humor, that's good stuff but a distribution full of slurs like some 13yo edgelord wrote it? I just don't see the appeal. There's already a bunch of random distros which are basically just themed (see https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/ or https://biebian.sourceforge.net/) and joke distros like Suicide Linux or AmogOS
When people feel frustrated because they can no longer laugh at some communities without people calling them out, they should take a moment to pause and reflect.
Noticing vandalism and fixing it is not the same as taking offence. Wanna get offensive stuff for some immature humour? Install fortune-...-off packages. Nobody is stopping you from experiencing it. But putting insults where other informative text should be is just stupid.
My personal favorite is the "Bush hid the facts" easter egg/bug. Was it a bug or an easter egg disguised as a bug? Given how MSFT does not like to break old functionality maybe the easter egg creator knew this when adding it? A easter egg to survive the generations.
Oh come on, as riddled with pitfalls as Unicode decoding is, you think it's an easter egg when the string "this app can break" or "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh" can also trigger the bug?
From the manual (https://web.archive.org/web/20080119120948/http://www.redhat...): “The ‘Redneck’ language entry represents a dialect of American English spoken by Red Hat Software's Donnie Barnes, and was used as a test case during the addition of internationalization support to the installation program. It is included solely for entertainment value (and to illustrate how difficult it is actually talking to Donnie).”
